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Reports of sur- Reports, giving hydrographic or important nautical in- 

 by y navai C vesseis e formation on ports visited during the year, were received 

 from the Brooklyn, Captain Weaver; the Richmond, Cap- 

 tain Skerrett; the Hartford, Captain Carpenter; the Lan- 

 caster, Captain Potter; the Shenandoah, Captain Norton ; 

 the Lackawanna, Capt. A. P. Cooke ; the Yandalia, Cap- 

 tain Wallace ; the Alliance, Commander A. V. Reed ; the 

 Wachusett, Commander Mahan; the Nipsic, Commander 

 Seeley; the Ossipee, Commander McGlensey; the Monoc- 

 acy, Commander Higginson, and afterwards under Com- 

 mander Cotton ; the. Kearsarge, Commander Bridgman ; 

 the Essex, Commander McCormick; the Enterprise, Com- 

 mander Baker; the Swatara, Commander Cooper; theYan- 

 tic, Commander Wildes; the Iroquois, Commander J. H. 

 Sands ; the Juniata, Commander Harrington ; the Quinne- 

 baug, Commander Ludlow ; the Adams, Commander Cogh- 

 lan; the Jamestown, Commander Gridley; and the Pinta, 

 Lieutenant Commander Caldwell. 



The Coast Survey steamer Hassler, Lieutenant Commander 

 Nichols, furnished hydrographic information concerning 

 Alaskan waters ; and tbe Fish Commission steamer Alba 

 tross, Lieutenant Commander Tanner, forwarded the results 

 of deep-sea soundings, observations for currents, tempera- 

 tures, specific gravity of sea- watery &c , taken in the North 

 Atlantic. 

 Publications of Sailing directions for " The Coasts of Newfoundland and 



the Office. CT 



Labrador," compiled by Lieut. W. W. Gilpatrick and Ensign 

 John Gibson, were published during the year, together 

 with twenty-six charts, of which four were engraved and 

 twenty-two heliographed. 



FISCAL TEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1885. 



The greatly increased work of the Hydrographic Office 



during the preceding fiscal year involved a corresponding 



increase of office room required by the various divisions ; 



and, as no additional space was available in the building for 



Removal of Di- the State, War, and Navy Departments, a special appro- 

 visions of Plates hs ./j- 7 x jrx. 



and Printing, priation of $1,200 was made by Congress for the rent of 



and of Drafting 



and Engr.iving, a suitable office for the Division of Plates and Printing 



to corner if New .,.,-,. ,. , , n , 



Tort avenue and A building was accordingly rented, situated at the corner 

 street, and their of New York avenue and Seventeenth street, Northwest; 

 to the Divisionof and in July, 1885, the Divisions of Plates and Printing, and 

 tion^ rt °° n8trac of Drafting and Engraving, were transferred to it, and soon 



